9/5/01

While an eight-year-old Florida boy was still in a coma after having
his arm bitten off by a shark, the People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals led an effort to install a controversial billboard suggesting
that the shark may have been motivated by "revenge," a notoriously
human emotion.

And after being unsuccessful in Seattle, PETA installed another
billboard in Vancouver advising people to "Eat the Whales." The
campaign criticizes meat-eating whale enthusiasts as hypocritical,
under the reasoning that whales can only be harpooned in their natural
habitat and have a better chance to escape death than cruelly raised
farm animals. Whales are also much larger, thus requiring fewer
individual deaths.